You Can Never Take It Back
by Amy LV
Students - I found today's poem in an old notebook from 2011. Below, you can see two drafts of it as well as a little note about why I likely wrote it: I was short with my husband.
Old Notebooks are Friends
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You'll notice that today's version repeats I am sorry three times rather than changing the last line to simply I am. Somehow this felt right to me.
I like the tooth fence. I appreciate apologies and learned from my mother that to apologize is brave and that it really matters to the hurt person.
Keeping a notebook helps me not only write better, but I like to think that it helps me to become a kinder soul. Reflection is healthy. And going back to read old notebooks is like hopping on a time machine made out of paper and ink. Who knows what poems we will find in our pasts? We can only find them, though, if we write regularly. Notebooks are friends.
Margaret is hosting today's Poetry Friday roundup over at Reflections on the Teche with a lovely book share and invitation to write. All are always welcome at these weekly gatherings of poetry and friendship.
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